I need to search the filesystem for text strings that match some string. I'm trying to get where the commands are used, meaning in which files they are called or used. I need to find every file where ...

I'm trying to manually pull the digests off of Rails assets (don't ask). I was directed to ZMV for easy regex-based find/replace. But the normal {32} syntax for specifying an amount of repetition does ...

This will be a rather hard one, i guess.
I have to fiddle around with inline documentation that is extracted into html files to be used as online documentation, but these parts of the files should be ...

I have a file where i need to take varying number of lines and concatenate into one. It could be two, three, or four lines that require concatenation. There is a common set of characters (say 'xxx') ...

I stumbled upon a behaviour I can not explain, hope some of you guys can help me out.
I try to generate a sort of documentation from a bigger Ant project, as such I use sed to filter the information ...

I am trying to use ReNamer regular expressions to reverse folder names that use author names. They are set up as LastName, FirstName and I need to change them to FirstName LastName (minus the comma).
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Windows, batch.
I want to process files in batch for loop. The problem is:I have no idea what exactly the extension will be. What I do know is that it will be a number.
So what I'm trying to create ...

I am new to sed and am cleaning up a very large file. The cleaned document looks right, but when I read it into my R, it shows that each line is appended with \016\t at the end of each line. I have ...

I really have no idea how to do this on windows with Widnows Explorer. So
I am trying to use Cygwin.
Basically, I'd like to list the full path of all subdirectories "reports" that contains .jsp files
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I attempt since 2 days now to config a shortcut to search for regex (regular expression) in the code and only select the first occurrence without automatic replacement. It allow me to navigate easily ...

I'm using DownThemAll and a bit of regex to grab files from a web page.
My DownThemAll filter is set up as follows: /\.(?:pdf|doc|docx|xls|xlsx|ppt|zip)$/i
However, each page also includes the file ...

I am successfully capturing successive groups that end with a colon, but I don't know how I might have each of those captures to be repeated in the replace, with backlink references. Here is a sample ...

I have several books that are improperly formatted that contain, among other things QUESTIONS and Answers.
My job is to make all the questions CAPITALIZED AND BOLD. I'm using MS Word to maintain the ...